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Opposition to same-sex marriage is like opposition to interracial marriage.
No, race is irrelevant to marriage—gender is essential to it. Nothing is wrong with interracial marriages because men and women are designed for one another, regardless of their racial backgrounds.
But same-sex marriage is harmful because the human body was simply not designed for same sex relations. As we’ve seen, homosexuals pay a high physical price for contradicting that design. So our marriage laws should be color blind but not gender blind.
Furthermore, interracial marriage was opposed without any valid grounds. Opponents hid their prejudice with false speculation about birth defects and the like. Since all racial groups interbreed, such problems do not exist. In other words, there really is no such thing as interracial marriage because there is only one race—the human race. Interethnic marriage poses no physical problems. However, same-sex couples don’t breed at all, and their unions are often unhealthy.
Ironically, it’s not conservatives, but same-sex marriage proponents who are reasoning like racists. Instead of asking the state to recognize the preexisting institution of marriage, homosexuals are asking the state to define marriage. Well, that is exactly the line of reasoning racists used in their effort to prevent interracial marriage. Racists wanted the state to define marriage as only between same-race couples, instead of having the state recognize what marriage already was—the procreative union of a man and a woman regardless of their racial/ethnic background.71
While racists and homosexuals may want to alter the legal definition of marriage, they cannot alter the laws of nature that helped produce the recognition of legal marriage in the first place.
Compliments of Correct, not Politically Correct, authored by Frank Turek. For more information, visit www.impactapologetics.com.
71 Thanks to my friend Dr. Francis Beckwith for this insight. See www.FrancisBeckwith.com for several fine articles dealing with social issues.
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